Hannity: Starting Now, My ‘Job’ Is To ‘Get Rid Of Every Other One’ Of Obama’s Czars
Hannity: Starting Now, My ‘Job’ Is To ‘Get Rid Of Every Other One’ Of Obama’s Czars
Yesterday, tens of thousands of people gathered in rural West Virginia for the coal-powered “Friends of America Rally.” The point of the event was to rail against the Waxman-Markey clean energy legislation. Massey CEO Don Blankenship, the driving force behind the rally, said that “America itself” was at stake if the bill wasn’t stopped.
Fox News personality Sean Hannity was one of the rally’s keynote speakers, and he took the opportunity to gloat about Van Jones’ resignation. He vowed to the audience that he would get rid of “every other one” of Obama’s so-called czars:
HANNITY: Do you want another czar?
CROWD: No!
HANNITY: I don’t think so. By the way, we got rid of one, and my job starting tomorrow night is to get rid of every other one. I promise you that!
Hannity’s pledge is part of a larger right-wing campaign. Glenn Beck has announced that Cass Sunstein, Mark Lloyd, and Carol Browner are his next targets and asked his followers to dig up all the dirt they can on them.
Republican lawmakers are trying to argue that Obama should be barred from appointing more advisers until the administration addresses their constitutional concerns. Yesterday on Fox News, Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA) said that all of Obama’s advisers should have to go through the same vetting and approval process through the Senate as Supreme Court nominees and Cabinet secretaries. Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) has said that the “president should suspend any further appointments of so-called ‘czars’ until Congress has an opportunity to examine the background and responsibilities of these individuals.”
The conservative strategy is to bring the executive branch to a screeching halt. Republicans in the Senate have tried to hold up key Obama nominees in what amounts to ideological witch hunts and self-interested horse-trading. Additionally, several of the so-called czars have actually already been confirmed by the Senate.
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that’s a declaration of war.
time to call DHS
September 8th, 2009 at 12:43 pmthis WH has really screwed up by conceding to these vermin.
September 8th, 2009 at 12:43 pmNow just think if these rules were in place for the Bush Administration. Yes Republicans gave Bush everything he wanted and of course President Cheney just did what ever he wanted to. Congress gave Bush a blank check and even Dems like Senator Feinstein said what ever President Bush wants he should have because he is our President. Yes Bush said he really didn’t care what people thought or what the polls said as he was President and if your not with him your agaisnt him. Now we see unqualified so call Journalist thinking they are President. Beck a recovering drug addict/alcoholic thinks he’s President. Rush is busy using drugs and attacking little girls.
September 8th, 2009 at 12:44 pmWhat do we know about Hannity–his life and his politics? If he is going to go around taking broadsides at everything progressive, I want to know his history. No more playing defense. Everything needs to be offense. That is how these mud wrestling rethug pigs want it.
September 8th, 2009 at 12:44 pmI’ve always felt these czars were unecessary and nothing but a way to water down congressional oversight, regardless of what party is in power.
But the rightwing only cares when they feel they can score cheap partisan points. Disgusting.
Congress should pass a law getting rid of all czars so scum like any of the anti-American wingnut blowards and the GOP can’t play politics with the issue.
September 8th, 2009 at 12:44 pmStir the pot some more Hannity. It’s a dangerous mixture you’re brewing.
September 8th, 2009 at 12:44 pmI read – I believe on HuffPo – that it is perhaps better that Van Jones resigned because while in the administration, his hands are tied – but as an outside advocate, he and his mission would be more effective. In a way I agree with this stance, I just find it sad that the republicans are stooping to jr. high tactics, but here’s hoping that it backfires on them.
September 8th, 2009 at 12:45 pm.
Welcome to the world where 1+1/=2
Obama czars = BAD
Bush czars = He had czars?
And they say Reality is more than a T.V. show…
… NOT to these folks.
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September 8th, 2009 at 12:47 pmThat sounds like he wants to overthrow the government! I say our job is to get rid of Hannity, and Beck, and O’Reilly, and Fox and Friends. The whole lot of them.
September 8th, 2009 at 12:47 pmlokidog,
September 8th, 2009 at 12:49 pmThat’s like giving up eating just because someone called you FAT!
Who wins when you bend to their silly demands?
Well lets start digging up dirt on him and the rest of the fox knuckleheads (my apologize to wenchells friend) and talk radio freaks as well,
they are freaks and we need to let all the dirt on them fly as well.
September 8th, 2009 at 12:50 pmShorter ReichWinger – We’re the “MAJORITY MINORITY”
Fcuk the Republic Fascist Party
September 8th, 2009 at 12:50 pm“She’s a witch!
No, I’m Not!
Then how come you’re dressed like one?
You dressed me like this!”
Near as I can tell, none of the President’s advisors are made of wood, so Hannity’s insanity is getting really grating.
September 8th, 2009 at 12:52 pmIt’s not that Hannity hates czars — after all, Bush had czars, and so did many other presidents, and Sean never got worked up over them.
It’s that OBAMA has czars.
Bush czars good.
Obama czars bad.
And Hannity’s audience will never see the double standard.
September 8th, 2009 at 12:52 pmI wish that the Democratic majority that we elected in 2008 would do something. It’s been nine months and I’m sick and tired of waiting.
September 8th, 2009 at 12:54 pmMax says:
I’d just like to see these czars gone, but I do believe it would not be fair to the current president to not have the same ability as past presidents in building his administration.
Guess I’m dreaming to think congress could do something about the issue going forward in regards to whomever holds the White House after Obama.
Believe me, the day I buckle before a gutless little pinhead like Hanity and his braying wingnuts is the day I ask my wife to shoot me.
September 8th, 2009 at 12:55 pmOh Please. Not the ‘Czars’!! Run for cover Americans! The ‘Czars’ will ruin you’re life! Oh by the way. Didn’t Bush senior and Regan have ‘Czars’ too. I remember ‘The War on Drugs’. Wasn’t there a ‘Drug Czar’? If there was, he did a crappy job.
September 8th, 2009 at 12:55 pmMcCarthyism is alive & well in 2009.
September 8th, 2009 at 12:55 pmI have Republican friends that I respect. I was even willing to give Mr. Bush the benefit of the doubt after the fraud that was Florida.
I know that this is really nothing new, that this brand of hardball politics has a long tradition in American politics. Just the same, there is a point where partisanship crosses over into the subversion of democracy.
I am beginning to lose my patience with these people.
September 8th, 2009 at 12:57 pmDon’t we still have laws against sedition?
Also, someone here the other day printed a list of czars under the Bush administration.
September 8th, 2009 at 12:58 pmIt should be no surprise that Glenn Beck is the darling of the right. He barely graduated high school was diagnosed with ADD early on .He Is a self proclaimed addict of alcohol and drugs. He was admitted to Yale under a special education grant took 1 course and didn’t finish it. This is one of the revered spokesmen of the right and where many of the ideas of the teabaggers, birthers, tenthers come from. A question I keep asking are these the principles we want our future based on? I hope not!
September 8th, 2009 at 12:58 pmThere are no “czars”.
There are just appointments that the opposition despises.
So, in a way, Hannity might succeed. After all, “get(ting) rid of every other” “czar” will mean that there are none left to remove. Or that there never were any to remove.
The “czar” word. It’s all in that empty dead space Hannity calls a brain.
September 8th, 2009 at 12:59 pmKeith Olbermann just put out a call to everyone to dig up as much crap on these people as we can.
September 8th, 2009 at 1:00 pmHannity is incredibly stupid, evil, and un-American. He cares only about his rightwing lies and fantasies and couldnt care less about America nor Americans. That he has a TV show where he can lie and propagandize people is a disgrace. Were there any justice in the world the only job Hannity could get would be asking if you wanted fries with that happy meal
September 8th, 2009 at 1:01 pmSorry, no debate needed on this subject. The righties are now simple racists, nothing more. They can’t come out and say “because he’s black” so they throw any old crap out there as a substitute. But bottom-line it’s nothing but racism, and we need to call them out on that each and every time they speak.
September 8th, 2009 at 1:01 pmHmmm…apparently all you have to do to be a “czar” is to be an advisor to the Executive Branch who has been referred to as a “czar” in at least one reliable medium.
Wikipedia, following that standard, sets Dubya’s number of “czar” jobs at 35 and Obama’s at 32.
Remind me again — what’s Hannity complaining about?
September 8th, 2009 at 1:03 pmHANNITY: Do you want another czar?
CROWD: No!
HANNITY: I don’t think so
As they said on Blazing Saddles:
“These are simple people, ranchers, farmers, the salt of the earth. You know, Morons!”
/We don’t need no steenkin’ badges!
September 8th, 2009 at 1:04 pmI’m guessing that Ted Nugent was in full agreement with Hannity.
September 8th, 2009 at 1:04 pmWithout Hannity’s nauseating red, white and blue bullsh¡t tours, Nugent would have virtually no audience.
Well, we always knew fair and balanced was a theatrical trope Hannity.
September 8th, 2009 at 1:05 pmHannity was fired from his first radio job, at KCSB, for homophobic comments. Guess who defended him and won a reversal (although Hannity did not return to the job) – the ACLU. Perhaps someone should ask Hannity how he feels having been a client of the ACLU (and who cares if he technically was not a “client” – like the GOP we can “correct” that later).
September 8th, 2009 at 1:06 pmWho appointed Hannity the anti-czar czar?
September 8th, 2009 at 1:09 pmThe people cane to see Hank Williams…LOL
September 8th, 2009 at 1:09 pmBut hey, if Virginians want coal powered plants to save America, and obviously not their childrens lungs, then who is to say they cant?
Just keep it in your house, mmk?
September 8th, 2009 at 1:11 pmRush’s real name is Jeff Christie and while he was a DJ here in Pittsburgh he was arrested for, what was it…lewd behavior? Let’s start there.
September 8th, 2009 at 1:11 pmI am surprised that Fox, Hannity, Beck, et al, have never been the targets of demonstrations since they are located in New York. Surely, there must be enough people in the New York area who detest Fox enough to make their employees enjoy the benefits of a reverse “tea bag” party outside their building. A few days of large demonstrations will make the Fox commentators uneasy. If Fox gives the demonstration coverage, they will look like fools and if they don’t, they will look silly for not covering a news event outside their own studios.
September 8th, 2009 at 1:12 pmhannity, great american coward. who gives a shit?
September 8th, 2009 at 1:15 pmLets see, Hannity, A sychophant of Newt, demonizing people, nothing new there. Beck, an alcoholic and pot head. Oreilly, sexually harrassment expert. Ailes a DC (R) political hack. Kar Rove another partisan smear mongerer. Huckabee another (R) fear monger. Perino a serial Bushie…
Yes, my bad FOX is fair and balanced, I dont know how I didnt see that before.
September 8th, 2009 at 1:15 pmThis is great filler for the Repugs to focus on instead of the Spanish investigating the Bush White House. Or the fact that Cheney almost derailed the convictions of the bombers in the U.K. It seems to me these guys will always spread fear and nonsense instead of real news. Unreal. Why blame yourselves for your problems when you can look for the Boogie-man under the bed instead?
September 8th, 2009 at 1:16 pmRush’s real name is Jeff Christie
So who’s got an account with ancestry dot com?
This could get interesting in a hurry.
September 8th, 2009 at 1:16 pmYep, Fair and Balanced alright!
September 8th, 2009 at 1:16 pmI read that Bush had 35 “czar” jobs, compared to Obama’s 32.
Richard Nixon appointed a drug and an energy czar in 1973.
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Corporate activists are so pathetic….
September 8th, 2009 at 1:19 pmTime to get all these fools off our air way’s….War has been declared by the small reich wingers and we need to go to battle..Hit their sponsers and their owner with everything possible..Massive boycotts, emails and calls to the FCC….I’m on it are you.? Blessings
September 8th, 2009 at 1:20 pmHow backwards is Hannity’s/Beck’s/Limbaugh’s thinking? They want to tear down the government that has NOT, say, killed thousands of American soldiers and tens of thousands of foreign innocents. The administration that ruined the U.S. image abroad and redefined “fuzzy ethics” is the one the Right-Wing Extreme wants to admire and preserve, yes?
Basically, they’ve imagined these problems they’ve accused the Obama administration of committing, and have resolved to enact unjustified campaigns to tear apart the duly-appointed staff of the duly-elected President of the United States of America. Yet they refer to themselves as the “real Americans”? That, my friends, is incredibly backwards thinking.
September 8th, 2009 at 1:20 pmI think Rush Limbaugh is the real name, but Jeff Christie was a radio alias he used to use.
September 8th, 2009 at 1:25 pmThere is a lot of evidence to suggest he is a closeted homosexual, which makes him a hypocrite.
He is a known drug offender, which makes him a felon.
Rush’s real name is Jeff Christie
No i think if you look that was his made up air name while in Pittsburgh. he is using his real name now.
but its a place to start and work up for him.
September 8th, 2009 at 1:25 pmInteresting factoid:
In 1930, when Hank Williams Sr was seven years old, his father began suffering from face paralysis. At a Veterans Affairs clinic in Pensacola, Florida, doctors determined that the cause was a brain aneurysm, so they sent Elonzo Williams to the VA Medical Center in Alexandria, Louisiana. Lonnie remained hospitalized for eight years and was therefore mostly absent throughout Hank’s childhood.
Is Hank Williams Jr against ’socialist healthcare’?
September 8th, 2009 at 1:26 pmSet an example
September 8th, 2009 at 1:30 pmFree the hull of barnacles
Textbook sedition
It doesn’t matter what Obama does there will be this irrational paranoid harping about it from Fox Republican News. For all the good it will do, hannity should go on a campaign against Dijon mustard that Obama puts on his hamburger, its French. I was wondering when stupid became a Fox Republican News point of view.
September 8th, 2009 at 1:30 pmI am sure Obama will find a way to reach a bipartisan agreement with the Repugs on this matter – after all, that approach has been so successful in every other aspect of his feckless presidency.
September 8th, 2009 at 1:32 pmAnd these mo’fo’s call islamic people terrorists??
September 8th, 2009 at 1:32 pmAnd like his friend rushbo and sean have had clients of the aclu how fitting about that.
guess they have short memory
September 8th, 2009 at 1:32 pmThat Hannity…he’s such a BRAVE traitor, and such a nice-looking young man…it’s almost a shame to put him up against the wall.
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Tundra says:
And you are such a petulant little troll. I hope you didnt think that was clever. Actually it was sad and stupid
September 8th, 2009 at 1:36 pmAgain the right wing shows their hypocrisy. Hannity spent at least a month covering one sentence from Jeremiah Wright but I haven’t heard him criticize “Pastor” Steven Anderson for his “Why I hate Barack Obama” sermon or Governor Mark Sanford for trashing the family values the right holds so dear. It’s frustrating to watch three college drop out radio show hosts use the less fortunate political underclass to run The United States of America into the gutter of a third world existence.
September 8th, 2009 at 1:37 pmHannity’s a Bolshevik too!??
They’re everwhere…
THE REDS ARE COMING!!!
September 8th, 2009 at 1:37 pmHannities job is to be Fair and Balanced…right??
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Tundra, Eugene is right about you. The right is passing lies as truth everywhere you look and yet you take umbrage with us for telling the truth.
I think that you qualify for medical diagnosis.
seriously fella, are you bi-polar?
September 8th, 2009 at 1:43 pmHe’s a reporter, just as bad as politicians and lawyers.
I wouldnt call him a reporter…he doesnt do facts.
September 8th, 2009 at 1:47 pmI am going to be sure to tune in Olbermann’s show tonight.
September 8th, 2009 at 1:48 pmHe has said this is “war” with Fox.
Burn him like a witch in Salem!!
Has he been eating black moldy wheat?
September 8th, 2009 at 1:48 pmTundra says:
Thats IT? Journalists, politicians and lawyers are bad so you are going to sarcastically chide us for criticising them? Not like bad journalists are doing any damage to the country but WAIT they are. They are propagandizing people. There ARE good journalista like Bill Moyers, Seymour Hersch but you would rather just toss out some simpleminded inanity about so what he is a journalist and they are all bad? You are a sad joke and if you arent careful that is all you will ever be
September 8th, 2009 at 1:49 pmI have to admit that is this idiot will get people to stop using the word “czar” in place of “advisor” to describe “an individual who has a position in gov’t that does not require the OK of Congress because they are not that freaking important (though they can be effective) and ANSWER to people who have been approved by Congress” then this crazytrain will be worth it.
People, stop using “czar”.
September 8th, 2009 at 1:50 pmIt sounded stupid when Regan used it, it sounded stupid when Bush (who had 35 of these appointments to President Obama’s 32) Bush used it and it sounds stupid now.
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Hannity is not a reporter or journalist.
September 8th, 2009 at 1:52 pmHe is an on-air personality, an entertainer how does political commentary.
Xis,
I wouldnt call him a reporter…he doesnt do facts.
September 8th, 2009 at 1:53 pmOk, I’ll give ya that one.
@23 Mark701 says: Keith Olbermann just put out a call to everyone to dig up as much crap on these people as we can.
Here’s the link on the story – if anyone can make some progress, it would be Keith. No one else seems to want to tackle Murdoch and friends, but KO has already been burned by that group.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/9/6/777880/-Send-Me-Everything-You-Can-Find-About-Glenn-Beck
When all this mess over Obama’s election started, it was a few small and vocal fringe groups – each with their own agenda and none very powerful. However, I think we have underestimated what’s going on. These fringers are uniting, thanks to the likes of corporate money, Fox, Limbaugh, etc. and they are becoming extremely powerful. We have got to all do whatever we can to combat this.
There is no way that I can think of to get the message out to the Fox watchers. They won’t watch anything else and Fox certainly won’t allow opposing viewpoints, nor admit any lies and distortions. Fox-aholics won’t read blogs or websites that tell the truth, like this site, Media Matters, FactCheck, etc. From personal experience, our local newspaper and blog are both very conservative and refuse to print any of my letters to the editor or blogs.
MSM MUST get on the ball and start pointing out the fallacies and show support for our president. We also need a strong leader to come forward and start standing up to the nutters.
September 8th, 2009 at 1:55 pmgo fu ck yourself you self rightious pig.
Try a little of your own advice.
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Hannity,
September 8th, 2009 at 1:58 pmI’ve got a question for you:
When are you going to give a public accounting for how much money you’ve raised, and how much money you’ve donated to charity and Freedom Alliance since 2003 from your “Freedom Concerts?”
You have never been held accountable publically on the monies you’ve raised ( from Freedom Concerts) and the monies you’ve donated (to Freedom Alliance) and it’s about time!
You word is worthless,so how about some spread sheets?
I still feel bad about Van Jones. But, as Arianna Huffington wrote, he now can really exercise his know how. Every day, if now every minute, these right wing nuts are out in full color.
September 8th, 2009 at 1:58 pmTundra says:
Here is the difference. The two lefties you put up there are COMEDIANS, the dont PRETEND to be anything else. John Stewart is on the COMEDY CHANNEL Mahar is on HBO neither are a news channel. Even SO I doubt seriously you could come up with the lies and propaganda from either of them we could EASILY show from Rush. Your arguments on these two threads are so dishonest and disengenuous it is pathetic
September 8th, 2009 at 1:59 pmTundra, this time you got no leg to stand on. I’m with anyone verbally bashing you in this thread.
SOMETIMES you make a valid, decent counterpoint…but not today. FOX News is the only ‘journalistic’ outlet to have sued–SUCCESSFULLY–to be able to report what they KNEW was false on their Tallahassee tee vee station.
But no one makes editorials-as-news like FOX News, and lies right to their audience’s face. If you don’t know that for a fact by now, you aren’t really worth talking to.
So I think I’m done.
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Tundra, you got any tennis shoes? If you do, put them up and take a flying leap up my a$$.
September 8th, 2009 at 2:01 pm@39 DNFP says: Rush’s real name is Jeff Christie
So who’s got an account with ancestry dot com?
NOPE – His REAL name is Rush Hudson Limbaugh III
YUP – I have an account at Ancestry.com. What do you want to know?
September 8th, 2009 at 2:01 pmI believe that, as a charitable organization, the citizens of the state in which it is incorporated in have a right to review the books.
September 8th, 2009 at 2:03 pmI wonder how much gold Hannity bought from his buddy Allen Stanford.
I mean, he did urge his viewers to invest in it after all.
“Stanford Coins & Bullion, a member of the Stanford Financial Group, their name as good as gold,” Hannity intones on advertisements that regularly run on his radio show.
“Gold” as in a good old-fashioned ponzi scheme that is…
September 8th, 2009 at 2:04 pmXisithrus,
September 8th, 2009 at 2:04 pmThere was no Veterans Affair clinic in Pensacola in 1930, period!
Well, at least Bill Maher and Jon Stewart have a brain in their head. I can’t wait for The Daily Show, and The Colbert Report to return next Monday.
September 8th, 2009 at 2:05 pmbtw, on post 76 I meant to say “high level position”
September 8th, 2009 at 2:05 pmCharities are a joke. They only have to account for 10% of the money they collect.
September 8th, 2009 at 2:09 pmWasn’t he supposed to have been waterboarded? He should focus on that instead.
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Wow, considering Hannity’s unbridled hatred of czars I’d hate to be around the next time he runs into Karl Rove. Rove was appointed Domestic Policy Czar by GWB in 2004. Bush’s Abstinence Czar, Tobias Randall retired after being implicated in the DC Madam scandal. His Democracy Czar from 2005-2008 was PNAC signatory and unabashed neocon Elliott Abrams. Just a cursory glance at Bush’s picks in case Hannity wants to go there.
September 8th, 2009 at 2:12 pmaaronk,
September 8th, 2009 at 2:13 pmHannity has never divulged what the name of his so-called charity is. It’s not Freedom Concerts.I have searched for 3 years trying to find out what his 501c3 is called, if he even has one!
He claims at premierespeakers.org/sean_hannity/bio that in 2007 he donated $10,000,000 to Freedom Alliance, however Freedom Alliance’s Form 990 (for 501c3 charities)in 2007 shows no such donation! Hannity claims that in 5 concerts he held in 07, that 60,000 donated 10 million! The highest priced ticket was only $125.00 and not all of that was donated to Freedom Alliance. Every single person attending those 5 concerts would have had to pay $166.6666… to make up the $10 million donation!
go to guidestar.org registrar, then type in Freedom Alliance, click on the first one in the list and read their 990’s, as you’ll see no donation of $10,000,000 by Hannity or anyone.
Tundra, you brought it on yourself little man.
What happened to personal responsibility? Now you are the vicitim, right? poor tundra….
September 8th, 2009 at 2:15 pmFred,
September 8th, 2009 at 2:15 pmThat’s not true, they have to account for every penny they raise,that’s what IRS Form 990’s are for!
Attention Republican amoral sub-humans:
Is this your idea of a Death Panel? Because if it is, you have no soul, and I pray for your misery and untimely departure.
No sympathy for the wicked.
September 8th, 2009 at 2:16 pmObama and his administration are fools if they thought throwing Van Jones under the bus would appease and console the GOP. It didn’t. It emboldened them, and now they want more blood.
Will these dipshit Dems ever learn?
September 8th, 2009 at 2:17 pmuhhh…My recollection is that Benn Gleck already said dibshits on this.
September 8th, 2009 at 2:19 pmToo late, BritForShains.
But oh dear Lord, how they loved all the czars Bush put in place. Then, all adulation & respect. What’s the difference? It’s either race or political party. In either case, these jerks show themselves to be anti-country & anti-people. They define the term “hypocrite”. If it ain’t Repub, it’s Nazi. What a sad excuse for “patriots” these losers & ignorant hate-mongers are.
And let’s be honest– Hannity is a Fox hate-racist-liar czar.
September 8th, 2009 at 2:23 pmChickenbone Bill:
http://www.articlesbase.com/finance-articles/the-importance-of-how-charities-spend-their-money-861238.html
http://informationincontext.typepad.com/good_intentions_are_not_e/2009/05/emphasis-placed-on-the-percent-charities-spend-on-administration-can-actually-lead-to-increased-wast.html
And they spend 90% sometimes on Admin fees….
religious agencies dont even have to report anything.
Charities help themselves more often than they help others.
September 8th, 2009 at 2:26 pmOh, & the “starting now” crap??? When has Hannity ever NOT tried to destroy the President?
September 8th, 2009 at 2:28 pmHannity is an anti-American who incites terrorism. He should be at least investigated, if not jailed. Imagine if all his lies & smears had been leveled against Bush? Hannity would be incarcerated for years. Repub pundits are liars, too lazy to look for truth, & don’t even care about honesty. They make up pretty well everything they say. No facts, no research, no honesty. Any lie, any untruth, any smear to promote themselves & the lying Repubs. Country be damned.
chickenbone, I wouldn’t be surprised if Hannity’s charity had problems all over it. I am a conservative on many issues, but I can’t stand Hannity at all. He blasts GM for their government deal on his show, then gives paid testimonials for them during his commercials. I wrote into his show about that, but got no response.
September 8th, 2009 at 2:28 pmWhat happened to personal responsibility? Now you are the vicitim, right? poor tundra….
HAHA, victim of what?
September 8th, 2009 at 2:30 pmMaybe hannratty and becker can out compete each other and run themselves into the pavement at the same time…!!! Just a little puddle of goo on the streets of nyc…fitting….
September 8th, 2009 at 2:38 pmFred,
September 8th, 2009 at 2:40 pmFreedom Alliance since 2003 has only spent on average per year .032 on their reason to be a charity.Look at it this way: Since 2003 excluding 2008 they collected $48,241,571 in cash donations “BUT” only spent $1,781,782 on scholarships and direct cash grants to the wounded troops!
That’s it, for every $48 that’s donated they return roughly $1.78!
In Freedom Alliance’s last reportable year 2007 (2008 hasn’t been made public yet) they collected $12,459,317 in donations and returned $895,347 to the wounded veterans and their families! Look at 2004, collected $8,691,695 and returned back to the vets/families $105,250!
Hannity says he’s been donating to Freedom Alliance from his Freedom Concerts since 2003 but there is no proof!
In closing, on Fri Aug 21 at Kings Island, Hannity held a Freedom Concert and the media was banned from the concert!
Wonder why?
What happened to personal responsibility? Now you are the vicitim, right? poor tundra….
HAHA, victim of what?
[raises hand]
Oh! Oh! Pick me! Pick me!
September 8th, 2009 at 2:44 pmOh! Oh! Pick me! Pick me!
[Calls on the "Fly on the wall" in the corner]
September 8th, 2009 at 2:53 pmStarting now it’s the job of the American people to seperate Hannity from our airwaves.
Calling the FCC we’ve got a Father Coughlin situation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Coughlin#Cancellation_of_radio_show
September 8th, 2009 at 2:54 pmbarfly, tundra has turned into a whiney child who wants attention.
September 8th, 2009 at 2:54 pmbarfly, tundra has turned into a whiney child who wants attention.
Well DUH, noone responds when I agree with you, it gets lonly.
September 8th, 2009 at 2:57 pmHAHA, victim of what?
A need to play with the “cool kids” on liberal blogs, which only serves to highlight his own uncoolness.
Hah!
September 8th, 2009 at 2:58 pmJust kidding, Tundra. I long for the days of Exley. There was one troll that self-destructed on cue!
September 8th, 2009 at 3:00 pmAnd Fred, he’s yanking your chain.
But chase him if you want…
September 8th, 2009 at 3:02 pmI long for the days of Exley
WOW, that’s a blast from the past. He use to get so worked up hehe.
September 8th, 2009 at 3:03 pmI would love to say to Hannity “Starting now it is the public’s
September 8th, 2009 at 3:06 pmjob to hold you accountable for every lie you throw out there and THEN run your crazy ass off television.
These people are not about the constitution or fairness, they are only here to try and make Obama look as bad as possible. I have a feeling that if they continue on, they will find things getting much harder for themselves.
They only care when it is the opposite party in the white house.
September 8th, 2009 at 3:13 pmI know Insannity never graduated college, did Becky or Limpballs ever finish College?Do any of these HACKS know what a civics class is about?They keep fomenting the HATE?R/RACISM and some right wing nut job is going to unload a gun on some progressive again!
September 8th, 2009 at 3:13 pmThis is a self-destructed game these teabagger are playing. They tried to politicized everything, take over everything without viable options for the people.
I doubt President Obama will call on bipartisanship on this loopy repug bullshit.
I say let the truth come out, that’s what we want. The truth.
repugs are the aholes that prevent progress.
teabaggers have this stupid notion that antonyms for progressives\liberals\dems are stupid\crazy\racist\tables.
It’s amazing how stupid people want a stupid leader. repugs have a small base and shouldn’t be taken seriously.
The truth can’t be politicized.
Van should get his job back.
September 8th, 2009 at 3:16 pmbrothejr, Not just a Democrat but a Black man is in the White House!They can`t help but foment the hate towards the president,if we would done have this during 8 years of SHRUB and Darth Cheney`s Administration we would have been branded unamerican or traitors, but they don`t see the HYPOCRISY at all, this all about their party and not about the country.
September 8th, 2009 at 3:19 pmlokidog says:
Congress should pass a law getting rid of all czars so scum like any of the anti-American wingnut blowards and the GOP can’t play politics with the issue.
Yeah that will happen when the repugs start fcuking up again, OK? Until then this African-American President shall get all rights and privileges afforded to the office.
repugs will fight with lint.
September 8th, 2009 at 3:31 pm“Hey lint, you should be heavy,” said the smart repug.
Repugs need to fought, I urge everyone on this thread to make that clear to their elected Democratic reps. I had the opportunity to talk to Sen. Franken and told him to fight the good fight, don’t back down. Sen. Franken is one we can count on, I know this, he IS for the little guy.
September 8th, 2009 at 3:37 pmlaprofesora says:
Rush’s real name is Jeff Christie and while he was a DJ here in Pittsburgh he was arrested for, what was it…lewd behavior? Let’s start there.
You should really back up your assertions.
September 8th, 2009 at 4:33 pmSpoken like a true traitor. Can we skip the preliminaries and just build a big electric fence around FAUX headquarters?
September 8th, 2009 at 5:19 pmDemagogues do not need a college education or a high school diploma. All they need is the skill to BS.
September 8th, 2009 at 7:48 pmIf Hannity had an ounce of integrity he would come on his show tonight and tell his audience that he is a moron who is not even close to qualified to give political analysis. That if you have been taking him seriously you are an idiot and he is resigning in disgrace. Of course we could also say if pigs had wings they would fly
September 8th, 2009 at 9:00 pmI believe the last real czar and his family were exterminated by Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky and the boys. Loving, caring communists those guys.
September 8th, 2009 at 9:31 pmThat’s the most amusing part. The poor Reichwhiners, apparently, don’t realize that the Czar’s Imperial Russia was, virtually, the opposite of the Soviet Union. In fact, the mere existence of a Czar is anathema to communism. Alas, the poor freaks are not, largely, educated enough to even know what they are raving about.
So, what are they afraid of? Are they afraid that Obama is a communist or an imperialist. They don’t seem to realize that the two are mutually exclusive.
September 8th, 2009 at 9:54 pmMarie here ya go:
From
http: //thinkprogress.org/2009/09/04/beck-czars-video/#comments
Max Anax junius says:
http:/ /wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_czars_in_the_bush_administration
Many people want to downplay the number of Czars that Bush appointed, due to the controversy being created over President Obama’s use of Czars. Actually, Bush used many Czars! Here is a partial list of the czars that he appointed during his administration:
Cyber Security Czar
Regulatory Czar
AIDS Czar
Bird Flu Czar
Intelligence Czar
Health IT Czar
Katrina Czar
Manufacturing Czar
Drug Czar
Domestic Policy Czar
War Czar
Copyright Czar
Abstinence Czar
Mine Safety Czar
Latin American Czar
WTO Czar
Corruption Czar
Privacy Czar
Sudan Czar
and Health Czar, to name more than a few.
p.s.
Bush II had 36 Czars…
http:/ /en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._executive_branch_czars
And SP Biloxi says:
Beck: “Never before have there been so many executive posts that were not confirmed by Congress and who answered only to the president.”
Let’s review some of the czar titles [which were wasteful titles] that the Sith Administration created:
a. For information technology infrastructure, Bush named a cybersecurity czar.
b. For Beck: “Never before have there been so many executive posts that were not confirmed by Congress and who answered only to the president.”
Let’s review some of the czar titles that the Sith Administration created:
a. For information technology infrastructure, Bush named a cybersecurity czar.
b. Beck: “Never before have there been so many executive posts that were not confirmed by Congress and who answered only to the president.”
Let’s review some of the czar titles that the Sith Administration created:
a. For information technology infrastructure, Bush named a cybersecurity czar.
b. For corporate benefactors led to the creation of a “regulatory czar” at the Office of Management and Budget.
c. “AIDS Czar” was created. Bush appointed Randall Tobias who later resigned becuase he was client of the DC Madam.
d. For struggling manufacturing industries, Bush appointed a “manufacturing czar.”
e. To correct the failed national security intelligence Bush created an “intelligence czar” position.
f. “Bird-flu czar” created for the bird flu epidemic.
g. In handling of the response to Hurricane Katrina, there was a “Katrina czar.”
Beck wouldn’t know the definition of a “czar” if it bit him in the butt. I bet if Obama created a media czar position that would oversee all the media coverages of the White House, Beck and Fox News would go through hoops to apply for that job in a heart beat.
September 8th, 2009 at 10:06 pmThere is no word for Hannity , Beck, et al in the English language. I may not agree with Obama all the time, but his life story is admirable and his intentions are honerable. The whiners at Fox with their paronid, victim mentality aren’t fit to shine Obama’s shoes. Multimillionares sitting in glitzy studios spreading cheap lies to fatten their wallets. How pitiful and what a dispicable life calling, while legions are out doing the real work of holding the country together these clowns beam their hate across the airways and try to bring the country down. They bring out the worst in people and encourage them to see themselves as victims and infantilize their viewers.
September 8th, 2009 at 11:50 pmSadly, it seems we are stuck with them under their protection of “free speech”.
bellarose says:
There is no word for Hannity , Beck, et al in the English language.
I have recently been suggesting. “AMINO”.
AMericans In Name Only.
September 9th, 2009 at 2:01 amkwsventures says:
Yeah almost as caring as those cuddly capitalists like Hitler, Rios Montt, Suhuarto, Idi Amin. You get the picture. Oh wait I am talking to YOU. You are too stupid understand the concept of mud. Why dont you just STFU and stop humiliating yourself. What does parading just how stupid you are do for you anyway?
September 9th, 2009 at 2:16 ambellarose says:
There is no word for Hannity , Beck, et al in the English language
>>>>>>>
Vermin comes close
September 9th, 2009 at 2:18 amI hear the cuckoos singing in the cuckoo-berry trees (Man of La Mancha).
September 9th, 2009 at 9:54 amThank you for your sharing.!
September 11th, 2009 at 2:49 pmIt is time to put the Sean Hannity’s of the world on defense. I think it is the right of the public to know what type of person he really is if he is going to keep inserting himself into the political arena. We must vet him. burun estetigi
September 15th, 2009 at 6:05 am